How To Respond To Propaganda
Part 1: We live in an era of consensus views and cancel culture
The following four-part series is my tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 1974 essay, Live Not By Lies, based on what I am observing in the West. Here are links to the other parts: Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
It is directly inspired by Solzhenitsyn’s form and format.
After his exile from Russia to the West, Alexander Solzhenitsyn warned of the dangers of staying silent in the face of shameless propaganda and, worse, agreeing to lies.
How will you respond to what you see happening around you?
At this point, dissenting voices are silenced by AI algorithms before their words strike a single ear. Now just a handful of independent platforms host uncensored views, where a few brave heroes say the things that are no longer permitted in public.
In the mainstream media, we witness the gratuitous trashing of all of America’s accomplishments ignoring mountains of contrary evidence right before our eyes. Celebrating far-flung dictators and tyrants.
- In the name of globalization, we recklessly feed tomorrow’s competitors while hollowing out our own industrial base.
- In the Fukushima-fueled nuclear panic, the West handed its…
